Category Archives: Technology

Discussion of new technologies, or the use of existing services and products that use technology or have technology as their main predicate. Mainly information technology can be found on this blog. Technology and how it affects other parts of society, such as economics or something as simply as daily life (e.g. usage of a word processor).

During the past year, about 43 percent of the Belgian consumers ordered goods or services online. According to figures from the ‘Federale Overheidsdienst Economie‘ (Federal Public Service Economy). Two years ago, e-commerce reached 38 percent of Belgian consumers. The year before, the corresponding figure was only 21 percent. Belgium is an average country compared to other European countries when it comes to e-commerce, but there still remains a significant gap with the neighboring countries, where the penetration of e-commerce is at least 10% higher. The highest score in Europe is recorded in Britain and Sweden, where 71 percent of the population uses e-commerce. The main objections to online purchases remain the persistent questions regarding the security of e-commerce, high delivery costs and long delivery times.

Belgian e-commerce doubles in 2 years time was last modified: August 23rd, 2014 by Thomas

Meta tags, also called meta elements, are used to provide search engines with the correct information regarding a specific page on a website. A meta tag is placed in the head of an HTML document, such as in the following piece of code:

Meta tags are used by search engines, such as Google and Bing, to be able to categorize a webpage correctly. Note that these meta elements are, although they are part of a document, not visible to users visiting the website with a web browser. There are many types of meta tags, here are the most important ones you should definitely consider using:

Commonly used Meta Tags

For most web masters and web designers, Google will be the search engine were the focus lays. If your site is found and indexed correctly by this leading search engine, you can be more than happy. Google mainly understands the following meta tags to index web pages.

When you installed your WordPress installation in example.com/wordpress/, you should use the following .htaccess fileRewriteEngine On RewriteBase /wordpress/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]

In case you installed it in the root of your domain, so that would be example.com/RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 1 errors while attempting to retrieve DNS information for your site. The overall error rate for DNS queries for your site is 100.0%. You can see more details about these errors in Webmaster Tools.